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scriptito

scriptito · v. freq. a

to write often

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Where it lives

Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
De Oratore 4 · 0.66/10k
Noctes Atticae 6 · 0.54/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

scriptĭto — Lewis & Short

scriptĭto (-pto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.scribo. *

Prisc. 825; 1224 P.),

I In gen., to write often: in palmarum foliis primo scriptitatum est, Plin. 13, 11, 21, § 69. —

II In partic., to write, compose, etc. (usually with accessory notion of writing at one's own will, not officially or professionally; cf. Ellendt ad Cic. de Or. 2, p. 220; class.): et haec et si quid aliud ad me scribas velim vel potius scriptites, Cic. Att. 7, 12, 6: M. Bibulus scriptitavit accurate, wrote, composed, id. Brut. 77, 267: multum, id. de Or. 2, 23, 97: nisi diu multumque scriptitarit, id. ib. 1, 33, 152: Graeci quoque ipsi sic initio scriptitarunt, ut noster Cato, used to write, id. ib. 2, 12, 51: (primus Antonius) scriptitasse Othoni credebatur ducem se partibus offerens, Tac. H. 2, 86: ad Primum et Varum media scriptitabat, id. ib. 3, 52: talia sanctissimos homines scriptitasse, Plin. Ep. 5, 3, 3.

In the wild

scriptitavit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.7.1
scriptitasse Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.3.3
scriptitasse Tacitus, Historiae 2.90
scriptitarunt Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.4.10
scriptitavit Cicero, Brutus 169
scriptitarit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.20.5

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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